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Modern Ireland: Past, Present and Future Hunger is a film written by Edna Walk and Steve McQueen and also directed by Steve McQueen. McQueen, an Englishman, is known in the art industry for having a very creative and detailed eye for identifying, capturing and magnifying the smallest detail and assigning it a multitude of different contextual meanings. Hunger, McQueen's first feature film, neither disappoints nor deviates from his artistic fashion and, as a result, Hunger brings to life the political, social and disturbing conflicts that occurred in the Maze prison complex during the 1981 hunger strike. context of Hunger, released in the current media market, acts as an emotional thermometer to gauge how modern society remembers, learns from, and reflects on this modern historical event that is personal, yet controversial to many people around the world. In the UK and around the world. The film is set in Northern Ireland in 1981 and follows the events of Bobby Sands, a member of the Provisional IRA who led and actively participated in the hunger strike. During this period of violence and tension between the nationalist Irish Republican Army (IRA) and Northern Ireland, the British Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, had revoked the rights of political prisoners five years earlier. In 1981, in a new declaration of withdrawn rights, he stated: “There is no such thing as political assassination, political bombing and political violence. There are only criminal murders, criminal attacks and criminal violence." The protests and hunger strike of 1981 were a successful but drastic attempt to regain political prisoner status by a government that considered Irish Nat... at the heart of the paper... to live his life for what he believed in . in, will stimulate a new wave of Irish identity that would encourage people to continue fighting for the betterment of Ireland. The film does not appear to intentionally spark political debate or instigate further transnational controversy, but instead makes the audience realize and understand what happened, accept it as history, and appreciate the powerful story of a man who willingly died for his beliefs. Works Cited"Fame (2008) - Awards". The Internet Movie Database (IMDb). Np, nd Web. 12 December 2010. .Patterson, Henry. Ireland since 1939. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2002. Print.kinematographos. " YouTube - "Hunger" - Interview with Steve McQueen (1/4). " YouTube - Broadcast yourself. Np, nd Web. 12 Dec. 2010. .